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The Liberal and openDemocracy
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IRAN AND THEFUTURE OF LIBERALISM

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently called on Iranian
students to "yell against liberal thoughts". Yet the philosophy of Liberalism
has suffused the nation's rich cultural fabric and reinvigorated her
intellectual life; the ideas of Habermas, Hegel, Kant and Arendt have
become
the subject of impassioned debates about the nature
of civil society and the public sphere. In an
age averse to affirmation,
the citizens of this reactionary theocracy see Liberalism for what it
is –
a profoundly radical political project whose time has come.

with

DANNY POSTELSenior Editor at openDemocracy
and author of ‘Reading “Legitimation Crisis” in Tehran’

ZIBA MIR-HOSSEINISenior Research Associate at the London Middle East Institute
SOAS, University of London

PROFESSOR MARY KALDORDirector of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance,
London School of Economics